--- title: As a tomato ripens its green fades and a red pigment called lycopene… — Leaves, fruit and colour in nature · tree and pragmatics description: As a tomato ripens its green fades and a red pigment called lycopene builds up; tomatoes ripen faster next to bananas because bananas give off a gas called ethylene. Who acts: tomato, green, red pigment, tomatoes. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tomato, green, red pigment, tomatoes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:028-colour-in-nature.lesson:9 # text = As a tomato ripens its green fades and a red pigment called lycopene builds up; tomatoes ripen faster next to bananas because bananas give off a gas called ethylene. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 028-colour-in-nature.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 tomato tomato NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 ripens ripen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 green green NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 fades fade VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 pigment pigment NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 13 lycopene lycopene NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 xcomp _ _ 14 builds build VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 17 tomatoes tomato NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 ripen ripen VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 18 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp 20 next next ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 18 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:case 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 bananas banana NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl 23 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 bananas banana NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 26 off off ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl _ _ 30 ethylene ethylene NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 xcomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ripen** | present | a tomato | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **fade** | present | tomato's green | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **call** | participle | a red pigment *not said here* | lycopene | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **build up** | present | a red pigment | | | | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **ripen** | infinitive | tomatoes | | | | | fast, next *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **give off** | present | bananas | a gas | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source gas=Theme | | 7 | **call** | participle | a gas *not said here* | ethylene | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. 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